Show #2377 1994-12-27 (taped 1994-10-18) Regular

Contestants

Jack Kennedy — a newspaper pressman from Waldwick, New Jersey

Pat Farrior — a postal worker from Pensacola, Florida

Tom Stemwedel — a research associate from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $400 $3,100 $10,200 $1,199
2nd place: When Eagles Dance sculpture from Ashley Editions + Gateway 2000 PC + Jeopardy! home game
$7,900
27 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Pat $2,000 $2,100 $2,700 $5,399
New champion: $5,399
$2,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Jack $-300 $1,000 $9,600 $1
3rd place: RCA LaserDisc-CD player + Jeopardy! home game
$6,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS THE MOVIES MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WEIGHTS & MEASURES GEESE GEOGRAPHY "B"
$100 [11]
Of French descent on her father's side, it was Jackie's maiden name
Bouvier
Pat
$100 [1]
He & Oliver Hardy appeared in 1917's "Lucky Dog" but didn't become a team until 1926
(Stan) Laurel
Tom
$100 [6]
Tiny versions of these metal instruments are worn on the fingers of belly dancers
cymbals
Pat
$100 [21]
Quires & reams are used to measure this
paper
Tom
$100 [26]
A fable tells of a man who kills the goose that does this in order to get all the riches at once
lay the golden egg
Pat
$100 [16]
This European capital is located in the historic region of Brandenburg
Berlin
Tom
$200 [12]
In 1993 the Clintons visited Jackie on this Massachusetts island where she had a summer home
Martha's Vineyard
Tom
$200 [2]
Marni Nixon provided Eliza's singing voice in this 1964 musical
My Fair Lady
Jack
$200 [7]
It's the smallest member of the family of instruments that includes the cello
a violin
Tom
$200 [22]
It's the power needed to raise 33,000 pounds 1 foot in 1 minute
a horsepower
Tom
$200 [27]
Number of geese a-laying in the twelve days of Christmas
6
Tom
$200 [17]
At its narrowest point, this strait separates North America & Asia by only 53 miles
the Bering Strait
Tom
$300 [13]
As an "Inquiring Camera Girl" for a Washington paper, Jackie covered this 1953 event in England
the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Pat
$300 [3]
Director Lina Wertmuller's first job in movies was as this director's assistant on "8 1/2"
Federico Fellini
Jack
$300 [8]
The body of a banjo is round; the body of a balalaika is this shape
triangular
Pat Jack
$300 [23]
In the metric system, the hectare is used to measure this
area
Tom
$300 [28]
Goose Tatum was one of the clown princes of this legendary basketball team
the Harlem Globetrotters
Jack
$300 [18]
It's Canada's only province on the Pacific coast
British Columbia
Tom
$400 [14]
Much of the initial research for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK was done by Jackie
Profiles in Courage
Tom
$400 [4]
This Costa-Gavras film details the disappearance of Charlie Horman during Chile's 1973 coup
Missing
$500 [10]
Since the 15th c., it's had 3 main parts: the soundbox, neck & pillar; the pedals are 18th c.
the harp
Tom
$400 [24]
In angular measure, 60 minutes equal 1 of these
a degree
Tom
$400 [29]
Perrault's mere l'Oye is known as this in English
Mother Goose
Tom
$400 [19]
This city was the site of the 1992 Summer Olympics
Barcelona
Tom
$500 [15]
For 2 years Jackie attended this prestigious N.Y. women's college, where she made the Dean's list
Vassar
Jack
$500 [5]
His electrifying tango scene in 1921's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" made him a star
Rudolph Valentino
Pat
DD $700 [9]
The strings on a Japanese koto are made from this fiber
silk
Pat
$500 [25]
In printing an EN is half the size of one of these
An EM
Jack
$500 [30]
It's another word for horripilation
gooseflesh
Jack
$500 [20]
Noted for its sugarcane production, it's the easternmost island of the West Indies
Barbados
Tom

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS AROUND THE WORLD NEW YORK GOVERNORS BOOKS & AUTHORS THE SUEZ CANAL
$200 [2]
On March 25, 1994, the U.S. withdrew the last of its peace-keeping forces from this African country
Somalia
Tom
$200 [21]
A lieutenant-general to Octavius in "Antony and Cleopatra", or a "bullish" sign of the zodiac
Taurus
Pat
$200 [11]
This city lies on the Amstel River & its name means "dam of the Amstel"
Amsterdam
Jack
$200 [1]
As of 1994 this governor had served over 11 years, longer than any other Democrat in the state's history
Cuomo
Tom
$200 [16]
Ian Fleming devised his story about this evil doctor after visiting a flamingo colony in the Bahamas
Doctor No
Pat
$200 [26]
The northern terminus of the canal is Port Said on this sea
the Mediterranean
Tom
$400 [3]
In 1512 this king seized Navarre, bringing all of what is now Spain under his control
Ferdinand
Jack
$400 [22]
Cinna shouts, "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" after this man is stabbed to death
Julius Caesar
Jack
$400 [12]
Some of this city's finest museums are in Chapultepec Park
Mexico City
Tom
$400 [4]
In 1795 this Supreme Court justice became the first & only Federalist governor of New York
John Jay
Tom
$400 [17]
In "Disclosure" this "Rising Sun" author deals with sexual harassment
Michael Crichton
Tom Pat
$400 [27]
Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal has none of these raising or lowering devices
locks
Tom
$600 [5]
After WWI this Polish port became a free city supervised by the League of Nations
Danzig
Tom
$600 [23]
In Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this future king is known as Prince Hal
Henry V
Pat
$600 [13]
In 1364 King Albert added 3 little crowns to this Scandinavian country's coat of arms
Sweden
Jack
$600 [8]
Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, he was one of the founders of the Whig Party in the 1830s
(William Henry) Seward
Tom
$600 [18]
Some of the characters from "Scruples" are featured in her 1994 bestseller "Lovers"
(Judith) Krantz
Tom
$600 [28]
The canal separates most of Egypt from this peninsula on its east bank
the Sinai Peninsula
Jack
$800 [6]
He succeeded his mother, Queen Victoria, as the British monarch when she died Jan. 22, 1901
Edward VII
Tom
$800 [24]
One of his last lines is "I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born"
Macbeth
Tom
$800 [14]
German Crusaders founded this city in 1201; it's now the capital of Latvia
Riga
Jack
$800 [9]
This "Happy Warrior" used "The Sidewalks of New York" as his 1928 presidential campaign theme
Al Smith
Tom Jack
$800 [19]
"The Silmarillion", sort of a prequel to his famous fantasy series, was published posthumously in 1977
Tolkien
Jack
$1,000 [30]
In the 1850s this Frenchman obtained rights to build the canal from the khedive of Egypt
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Pat
$1,000 [7]
This largest city of Laos became an independent kingdom in the 1700s & part of French Laos in 1893
Vientiane
Tom Pat
DD $3,300 [25]
Escalus, prince of this city, says, "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo"
Verona
Tom
$1,000 [15]
It's the only country in Central America whose official language is English
Belize
Pat Jack
$1,000 [10]
In 1937 this future GOP governor was elected District Attorney in New York County
Thomas Dewey
Jack
$1,000 [20]
His "Eye of the Needle" was published in England under the title "Storm Island"
(Ken) Follett
Pat
DD $4,000 [29]
In 1956 the government of this Egyptian president nationalized the canal
Nasser
Jack

Final Jeopardy!

ORGANIZATIONS

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America is headquartered in this city

Philadelphia

Pat "What is Philadelphia?" — wagered $2,699
Jack "What is New York?" — wagered $9,599
Tom "What is New York" — wagered $9,001

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